They have the right, they lack the desire or conviction. It won’t happen. Instead, they will continue to allow him to spew his vitriol unfettered. I expect the first “fact check” they put on his tweets to be the last.
At this point I think it’s all theater. The reality is they are lock-step with him no matter what he does, and no matter what it appears they do to “contain” him. They are his tool as much as Fox Newz. More?
I wish he had threatened to make his own Twitter, with blackjack, and hookers.
On the one hand: Trump is a bloviating sack of weasel shit with the moral center of a two year old being denied his ice cream. His comments are both divisive and wrong at every conceivable level. There are farts with more considered thought than that gibbering macaroon has had. He is every example of what is wrong with America.
On the other hand: Twitter is a ginormous corporation, bloated and swollen, happy to make bucks giving a platform to the alt-right propaganda machine as it spews vitriol and hatred, so long as it carefully couches its diatribes in terms that don’t actually spell out how to kill off the minorities and poor people they despise. Thus they help perpetuate the very system that allows tiny brained ferrets like trump to thrive, and then double down by refusing to enforce their own TOS when he inevitably goes off the rails.
And I have to pick a winner here? Fuck my life…
EDIT: In reality, they are simply two parts of our corporate dystopia. The political hand, and the trough feeding corporate pigs who belly up to the hand for scritches while bleeding Americans dry as workers and consumers. Fuck them all.
If Trump is furious, someone’s doing something right.
Part of me wants Twitter to keep tagging his tweets. If he melts down to such a degree from two tags, the ensuing Chernobyl from them deliberately continuing the act would be epic, and likely put POTUS so off balance that he says actionably illegal things to tank his reelection prospects.
Of course, the other side of that coin is if nobody acts on the things he says or does during his meltdown - something sadly less than improbable from recent experience.
If their goal was to damage Trump, they wouldn’t have waited this long while allowing him to cause so much damage of his own.
You’re talking like they are against him. They aren’t. They need him.
He’s talking like they are against him. I have no idea what he actually thinks, but at least half of anything he says at any given moment is a lie. He might think they are against him, or he might be doing what he always does to discredit anything done toward him that’s negative; attack and deflect.
ETA Has he called them dogs yet? That’s when we will know he’s seriously against them. Nothing is more filthy to him than a dog.
They already caused enough damage enabling the GOP and various Russian troll farms. But like anyone who worked for, conspired with, provided services for Trump, he eventually turns on them.
The GOP officially declared itself the Neo-Nazi party at Charlottesville in 2017
The GOP officially declared itself a criminal conspiracy when it acquitted the president in the first senate impeachment trial done without evidence or witnesses presented.
Now the GOP has just dropped all pretense and gone full Commie. Seeking to appropriate private property of various corporations for party purposes without compensation.
You don’t need to have the actual law on your side in order to use the legal system as a weapon against your enemies, particularly if you have immense resources at your disposal and have already installed your own toadies throughout both the Department of Justice and the Judiciary.
Its not a criminal law matter. Thanks to Trump denuding civil litigation resources/regulatory power of the Federal government, there is a pitiful level of legal support on his side, as opposed to the well paid corporate attorneys available to Twitter.
All those toadies put into regulatory agencies like the FCC and FTC largely to protect corporate interests are not very useful when going after corporate interests.
Just like in every other area of life, these folks think their issues come first (even if their issue is imaginary or just an inconvenience, they will frame it as being a victim of oppression and use every opportunity to whine/complain/protest about it):
